City, county approve negotiations on $1.3B Raiders stadium
City and county officials approved opening negotiations with an investment group on a possible $1.3 billion stadium project that supporters hope will sway the Oakland Raiders to stay. The approvals...
View ArticleTrump confirms intent to nominate Rick Perry for secretary of energy
President-elect Donald Trump officially announced his intent to nominate former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be secretary of energy. Trump taps Montana Rep. Zinke to lead Interior Department, report says...
View ArticleProsecutors to call final witnesses in Charleston #Church shooting case
Prosecutors are expected to call their final witnesses in the case against the man accused of killing nine blacks during a Bible study at a South Carolina church. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Richardson...
View ArticleIllnesses from New York eatery's #Thanksgiving meals tops 260
Public health officials report that the number of people who became ill after eating a Thanksgiving meal at a suburban Rochester restaurant has more than quadrupled. The Monroe County Health Department...
View ArticleClosings expected in South Carolina #Church shooting trial
In the days after nine black worshippers were killed in their Charleston church at the end of Bible study, President Barack Obama called Dylann Roof blinded by hate and Charleston's mayor said he was...
View Article'Affluenza' #Teen's dad convicted of pretending to be officer
The father of a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck has been found guilty of falsely identifying himself as a peace officer two years ago. A Tarrant County...
View ArticleCoast Guard, Royal Navy seize 26 tons of cocaine in Pacific
Officials from the U.S. Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Navy are in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to offload 26.5 tons of cocaine — worth an estimated $715 million — seized in the waters off the Eastern...
View ArticleUN #Claims Syria locked it out of Aleppo evacuation
Overnight negotiations have reinforced the cease-fire deal, allowing the rebels and civilians to leave the last rebel holdout in Aleppo, said Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group. The warring sides in...
View ArticleState trooper pulled over #Women to ask them out, officials say
A New Jersey state trooper is accused of trying to cover up that he pulled over women during traffic stops just to ask them out on dates. Marquice Prather, 37, of Linden, was arrested Friday on charges...
View Article'Santa Squirrel' freed from #Dog bone
For weeks, he would appear regularly around the Fernquists' yard: a busy gray squirrel with a strange tuft of white circling his neck, like a fluffy beard. The four Fernquist children gave him a name:...
View ArticleEgypt #Claims traces of explosives found on victims of Paris #Flight
Traces of explosives have reportedly been found on some of the victims of an Egypt Air flight from Paris that crashed in May, according to Egypt’s Civil Aviation Ministry. The Associated Press is...
View Article#Claims for unemployment benefits fall to 254,000
Fewer Americans signed up for unemployment benefits last week, the second straight week that claims have declined. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly claims for jobless...
View ArticleNorth Carolina prosecutor: Fatal police shooting justified
North Carolina prosecutors said a white police sergeant was legally justified to use deadly force against a black man who had an assault-style rifle. Multiple media organizations reported that Buncombe...
View ArticleDon't look to the Electoral #College to upend Trump
There's more hustle than hope behind an effort to derail Donald Trump's presidency in the Electoral College. Republican electors are being swamped with pleas to buck tradition and cast ballots for...
View ArticleLife in prison or death only options for Dylann Roof
Dylann Roof faces either life in prison or the death penalty after a federal jury convicted him on all 33 counts Thursday for killing nine black worshippers at a Charleston church. Charleston church...
View ArticleFBI returns items taken during Pulse shooting #Investigation
The FBI is returning items to survivors and the families of those killed six months after the mass shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub. The agency collected some 1,000 items during the investigation...
View Article1 dead in fire at apartment tower for elderly, disabled
One person has died and several have received medical treatment after a fire at an apartment complex for elderly and disabled people near Pittsburgh. The cause of the fire at the five-story Parkview...
View ArticleMylan launches #Cheaper version of EpiPen allergy #Treatment
Drugmaker Mylan has started selling a generic version of its emergency allergy treatment EpiPen at half the price of the branded option, the cost of which drew national scorn and attracted...
View ArticleNH man with dementia missing since Tuesday
The search continues for a man who has been missing from a Derry nursing home since Tuesday. John Walsh, 63, suffers from dementia, and his family is asking for the public's help in finding him. John,...
View ArticleAfter 16 hours, crews recover body of Mass. man who died in water tank
Officials said the man was a member of an inspection team working at a tank in Braintree at about 10 a.m. Thursday when something went wrong with their equipment. One of the men was diving in the tank...
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